Fulton, Alice

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It's Here...Somewhere

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It's Here...Somewhere
Alice Fulton , and Pauline Hatch
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Organize Every Area In Your Home.......2005-01-03

This book will show you how to deal, once and for all, with chronic clutter, lack of space, and the irritating lost-and-found pattern in your home. This book will show you how to put your home in order and keep it that way. The authors have added one vital step, not normally found in a book of this type. They show you how to find more places to put stuff by simplifying first, then organizing.

Learn of the authors easy eight-step system for simplifying any room in your house.
Step 1. Prepare your family
Step 2. Collect containers
Step 3. Work in a clockwise pattern
Step 4. Evaluate and assign
Step 5. Ask yourself the right questions
Step 6. Group and store like items together
Step 7. Use memento boxes for sentimental items
Step 8. Enjoy the empty space

On your mark, get set, go .... It is best to purchase this book as a household reference book. Copies are currently available on Amazon at under $4.

George MacPherson Reid

A Very Helpful Book!!.......2001-06-09

This book was a huge help. They help you to look at EVERY area of your home. The book is laid out very simple and you can skip over the chapters that don't pertain to your own home. They did offer some advice that I don't agree with (I don't agree with getting rid of EVERYTHING) and the idea of hanging drawstring bags on the inside of every closet door?? (I think that sounds a little tacky.) But, other than that this book is a quick read, which is helpful so you can get started right away! I defintly recommend this book to anyone trying to get organized!

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Feeling as a Foreign Language
Alice Fulton
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"The better part of fairness is the willingness to move toward what is given rather than impose one's own aesthetic on a book. This approach--a sympathetic leaning toward the work coupled with patient rereading--is the one I've tried to realize." In this collection, poet Alice Fulton looks at her craft from a critic's perspective, exploring the "good strange or eccentric" world of postmodern poetry. In order to do this, Fulton has divided her book into five parts; the first, "Process," explores the multitudes of filters that stand between the writer/reader and the work--everything from the computer screen to that judgmental internal editor "invested with the power of entry and exclusion." "Poetics" investigates the forms postmodern poetry takes, supporting the "free and fractal" with an in-depth examination of prosody, linguistics, and even the relationships between quantum physics and poetry. In "Powers" Fulton takes a look at two misunderstood poets: the 18th-century Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, and the 19th-century Emily Dickinson--both considered "eccentric" in their own times. "Praxis" is a meditation on the author's own work, and she follows it up with the final section, "Penchants," which contains three essay-reviews on a number of modern poets. Anyone interested in the state of postmodern poetry will find much food for thought in Alice Fulton's Feeling As a Foreign Language. --Margaret Prior

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In Feeling as a Foreign Language, award-winning poet and critic Alice Fulton considers poetry's uncanny ability to access and recreate emotions so wayward they go unnamed. How does poetry create feeling? What are fractal poetics?

In a series of provocative, beautifully written essays concerning "the good strangeness of poetry," Fulton contemplates the intricacies of a rare genetic syndrome, the aesthetics of complexity theory, and the need for "cultural incorrectness." She also meditates on electronic, biological, and linguistic screens; falls in love with an outrageous 17th-century poet; argues for a Dickinsonian tradition in American letters; and calls for a courageous poetics of "inconvenient knowledge."

<u>Contents</u>

Preamble

I. Process
Head Notes, Heart Notes, Base Notes

Screens: An Alchemical Scrapbook

II. Poetics
Subversive Pleasures

Of Formal, Free, and Fractal Verse: Singing the Body Eclectic

Fractal Amplifications: Writing in Three Dimensions

III. Powers
The Only Kangaroo among the Beauty

Unordinary Passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle

Her Moment of Brocade: The Reconstruction of Emily Dickinson

IV. Praxis
Seed Ink

To Organize a Waterfall

V. Penchants
A Canon for Infidels

Three Poets in Pursuit of America

The State of the Art

Main Things

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VI. Premises
The Tongue as a Muscle

A Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge

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A splendid reflection on poetry.......2002-02-10

Alice Fulton here offers beautifully crafted essays on poets and poetry, emphasizing the power of estrangement that gives lyric much of its interest. Emily Dickinson plays an important role in this book, but above all the reader will find elegant and telling formulations about poetry's exploration of possibilities of feeling.

Excellent, Challenging, and Accessible.......1999-09-21

Let's keep it simple: this is a challenging but accessible and rewarding book. It's not surprising that some professional reviewers have carped; the book takes them (often deservedly) to task for preaching "karaoke poetics," parroting with increasing volume and decreasing originality things that were said -- and tired -- a decade ago. Fulton's chapters on her own poetry and on Dickinson are outstanding, but the whole rewards even a casual reading. Though it's prose in format, the book is still a poem -- a fractal poem -- in the way it plays with its subject matter, diverges on flights of fancy and whimsy, reveals the poet as a person rather than a cold auctorial voice, etc.

Startling ideas, gorgeously written.......1999-05-02

Not since I read Wallace Steven's 'The Necessary Angel' 25 years ago have I felt such a wide-ranging intelligence in a book of essays on poetry. Fulton uses theories of science in absolutely startling ways. Readers with any interest in rich metaphors will find much here that is positively exciting and new. Her two essays on what she's calling "fractal verse" are solid, thoughtful, and full of possibilities for where poetry can take us. So far as I know, no poet has ever before described the "poem plane" and how poets are at the threshold of "breaking" through it. To me, this is as significant as Pound's idea of "breaking" the pentameter was when it was first proposed. This book is the work of a true visionary.

Worth the Work.......1999-04-13

I've got to admit that I'm beginning to lose my patience with a lot of Alice Fulton's critics, many of whom seem to toss disparaging words her way with the flippant anxiousness of young children encountering and smothering something new and intimidating. "How do you know that you don't like broccoli if you won't *try* it," and how will these writers ever lend a thoughtful critical perspective if they can't stop harping on Fulton for refusing to tow a more conventional, accessible critical stance? Their generic vision ought not be Fulton's problem. It's not my mission here, however, to get into a long dialogue about the critics (Amazon wouldn't post it anyway), but to instead come to the aid of an engaging, challenging, and vital new book of essays. Fulton's volume circumscribes a theory (let's make it more approachable)--a notion--of poetics that stands to breathe new life into a discipline that is fast becoming a solipsistic basketweaving in and around the zillion MFA programs of our nation's universities. Her implicit enthusiasm for sharp words (she bitingly assigns an anonymous, well-known poet the name Halcyon Angeltongue) and for poetry's good *potential* in these pieces is so forward-thinking and refreshing that I found myself, ruffling through the pages, suddenly grandly optimistic for poetry's contemporary cause. In these pieces: Fulton lights on the "screens," both figurative and literal, that fall between reader and object, individual and elements. She comes to the generous aesthetic aid of famous and unfamous poets alike, reorganizing conventional approaches to poetic criticism with precision and concerted care. And Fulton envisions an exciting, strenuous new school of "fractal poetry" (challenging and quite seaworthy), which "looks to chaos and complexity theory as touchstones for contemporary aesthetics. These pieces suggest that as free verse broke the pentameter, fractal verse can break the poem plane or linguistic surface." This writing is gleamingly new and often makes for difficult maneuvering, but it's always a dance worth learning, worth the work.

Felt: Poems

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Felt: Poems
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A fiercely imagined work, at once visceral and cerebral, by a poet of unremitting courage and linguistic intelligence. This groundbreaking collection considers the shadings of humiliation, obsession, love, failure, and loneliness—as well as subtle states that have yet to be named.

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Instant capture.......2001-02-09

From the opening poem "Close (Joan Mitchell's 'White Territory')" this book dives inside you and holds court until you assume its power. This astonis Taalpocket Duits (en néerlandais)

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That being said, I did pick it up. I opened it, and I had to read the first poem three or four times to make sure it was really as good as I thought. Then I moved on to the next, and the next. Long story short, I bugged the book's owner so much, now the book is mine. I have been thouroughly impressed with each successive poem. Since this (poetry) is not my usual thing, I lack the vocabulary to adequately describe this book.

It appealled to me, a (then) computer science and anthropology double major, and it appealed to my friend, who got his doctorate in literature.

Bottom line: No matter who you are, buy this book.

I loved this book. I highly recommend it........1999-10-25

It seems like Alice Fulton can bring anything into a poem and make it work. In these poems, for example, there's Elvis Presley, faked orgasms, TV-reruns. But she's not just grabbing images from popular culture to make the poems accessible - she's using them, it seems to me, because they're as much a part of our world, our ways of knowing and feeling, as classical myths, which are also here. (See her fantastic reinterpretation of Daphne and Apollo in the sequence called "Give:") And what's as wonderful to me is the lushness of these poems, the extravagance of language, the way Fulton builds up these crystal-like surfaces from line to line or stanza to stanza and makes them tilt, twist, dance. Alice Fulton's poems are exciting!

Farming in a Flowerpot

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Alice Fulton Skelsey
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Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems

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<B>Highlights from each of Alice Fulton's groundbreaking, prize-winning poetry books.</B><BR><BR>Over the past twenty years, Alice Fulton has emerged as one of the most brilliant and honored poets of her generation. She is also among the most thrillingly inventive, compassionate, and necessary. Cascade Experiment charts the evolution of a poetics that revises the limits of language, emotion, and thought.

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Good Collection from Cornell's Poet Laureate.......2004-11-28

CASCADE EXPERIMENT collects a lot of the important pieces from six earlier books by Ithaca's Alice Fulton, who teaches there and has taken the place of A R Ammons as the person people think of when they try to think of a poet at Cornell. Unlike a previous reviewer, I never once thought of the word, "percepticide" when I read through this career-making book, but I agree it's an interesting idea and it would be a good prism through which to examine Alice Fulton's poetry. Even the earliest poetry, where she was writing Plath-like, resonant dirges about her father, had to it an abundance of culture. She is the supremely cultured poet, as Wallace Stevens was to a previous generation (he died in 1955). What we get in CASCADE EXPERIMENT is a willingness to try to listen to the other party, which I do agree, would have been a valuable lesson to learn from Abu Ghraib. Like the training bras she speaks of in her poem, "Cherry Bombs," asking, "What did training bras train/ breasts to do? Hadn't I been told/ when stranger offered dirty candy/ /to say no?" she deplores our culture in which we just don't talk to each other often, and when we do, we mistake for hostility or aggression the other party's point of view. Without other people in our universe, and more important;y their voices, we would be nothing but trophies on the wall--brass emblems of which Fulton writes, in another important poem, "Brass wombs/ they bear transcendence/ without blood, pus, piss, spit, snot, or come./ Like children, they cry, I won." She sees clearly that children can often be cruel, but that it is not the same thing as adult cruelty, the children are still trying to make it into the mirror stage, feeling themselves unappreciated because they see ow way to distinguish themselves not only from their peers, but from the entire surround. I think poets sometimes feel this way as well. In "Art Thou The Thing I Wanted," Fulton tries to distinguish her priorities, to take stock in middle age. "Everything happens to me, I think,/ as anything reminds me of you: the real estate/ /most local, most removed."

She is both local and removed, and also real, like the "real estate" through which the bourgeoise attempts to maintain its grip on society and ontology.

In some ways she is even better than Ammons, who never cared a fig for questions like these.

Beautiful and Compassionate.......2004-10-23

As I was reading this stunning book, the word "percepticide" kept coming back to me. It was coined by Diana Taylor, and it sums up what Alice Fulton is getting at: that we Americans are mostly blinded by our culture. We're unwilling to look deeply and closely at the things that are most disturbing about our consumerism, our injustice, our cruelty. These poems made me think deeply about these issues: there is a continuing war against women; our culture can be so cold and cruel as to drive human beings to suicide; we have totally desensitized ourselves to the suffering imposed daily on animals; our ability to inflict pain on animals makes it easier for us to dehumanize (think Abu Ghraib) other peoples and inflict pain on them; we must not trust authority; we are infatuated with consumerism; we are destroying our environment; we need to practice compassion. We are the culture, and the culture becomes what it is by our unwillingness to look into ourselves and see how the little things we do every day build the culture. These poems are so carefully crafted, so intricately connected, so cumulative in their stance, and so ethically powerful, that I found it hard to deny the effect they had on me as I read them. That's the reason I'm writing this review (my first). I am so knocked out by the political power of this book that I wanted to spread the word. The cumulative effect of this book is exhilirating. There is so much right now that gives us cause to despair, and Fulton counters it with generosity, openness, humor, and a total absence of preachiness. The extraordinary, startling language in these poems, the way Fulton uses words "to build worlds" made me feel hopeful and energized, like Fulton, "trying to open wide" to the possibilities and hard personal work of creating a just world.

Perfect Pitch.......2004-08-01

I've read some of Alice Fulton's poems before. So what do I think of her Selected? In all honesty, Fulton makes reading seem worth doing, worth the effort. Her poetry has ideas as well as feelings and vice versa. She has perfect pitch and can be moving (sad) or moving (funny). I read A LOT of contemporary poetry, andafter having read her poems "Some Cool" and "Split the Lark", I can say there is no living poet I respect more. This is the best book of poems I've read in years, the kind that will pay you back with interest every time you return to it.

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Cucumbers in a flowerpot

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Cucumbers in a flowerpot
Alice Fulton Skelsey
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